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if we give more cities the tools to do it, not handouts but a handup, cities like detroit can do it too. so in a few weeks, wealth announce the first of these promise zones. urban and rural communities where we're going support local efforts focused on a national goal nap is the child's course in life should not be determined by the zip code he is born in. but the strength of his work ethic. [applause] >> and we're also going have do more for the long-term unemployment. you know, for people who have been out of work for more than six months, often through no fault of their own, life is a catch-22. companies won't give the rÉsume an honest look because they have been laid off so long. they have been laid off so long because companies won't give their rÉsume an honest look. that's why earlier this year i challenged ceos from america's best companies to give these americans a fair shot. next month many of them will join us at the white house for an announcement about this. fiflt, we've got to revamp retirement to protect americans in their golden years to make sure another housing collap
if we give more cities the tools to do it, not handouts but a handup, cities like detroit can do it too. so in a few weeks, wealth announce the first of these promise zones. urban and rural communities where we're going support local efforts focused on a national goal nap is the child's course in life should not be determined by the zip code he is born in. but the strength of his work ethic. [applause] >> and we're also going have do more for the long-term unemployment. you know, for...
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been clear that the need to be enforceable labor standards, enforceable environmental standards, some cities and countries says. none of that is agreed. the state-owned enterprise chapter, the environment chapter, and the patent on madison chapter is apparently in a total shambles. the other countries are so far rejected u.s. demands on those key issues. >> to you want to add something? >> laurie has covered all the bases, and i don't have access to the leaks. some i will defer. it is clearly evident in short, simple terms, the members of the union understand that our government is slowly but surely surrendering. we call them trade deals. we believe in trade. we understand the value of that. savage done in fair terms instead of free terms and now it is not even in free terms fox is a surrender agreement. that will be the battle line. >> another question. >> when the administration comes end to persuade congress to pass these agreements, did you said they posit the growth and jobs based upon export? they don't look at the countervailing loss of jobs in other words, we may get 40,000 jobs beca
been clear that the need to be enforceable labor standards, enforceable environmental standards, some cities and countries says. none of that is agreed. the state-owned enterprise chapter, the environment chapter, and the patent on madison chapter is apparently in a total shambles. the other countries are so far rejected u.s. demands on those key issues. >> to you want to add something? >> laurie has covered all the bases, and i don't have access to the leaks. some i will defer. it...
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that decision, indeed think about what is going on in york city right now, this is a city that oozes life. there is a vitality now that you do not see in the rest of the world. watching the detroit decision, one has to wonder when you look at michigan, and look at the inequities in michigan, there is a great wealth and certain pieces of it, but what is happening in detroit? i do wonder why these decisions are being made this way. detroit can be a jewel in that state. i would caution against selling the kind of assets like that art collection. >> the problem of bullying continues to grab headlines. we have had so many high-profile and tragic cases. we have seen school districts acknowledging the reality of these cases. the expense of the programs they have to institute, what are your members' feelings on these issues of what needs to be done? if they're a federal bullying legislation? >> i am a big believer in trying to figure out policy that works as opposed to simply some kind of top-down policy is going to sit on the books and people are going to look at it as a mandate and do noth
that decision, indeed think about what is going on in york city right now, this is a city that oozes life. there is a vitality now that you do not see in the rest of the world. watching the detroit decision, one has to wonder when you look at michigan, and look at the inequities in michigan, there is a great wealth and certain pieces of it, but what is happening in detroit? i do wonder why these decisions are being made this way. detroit can be a jewel in that state. i would caution against...
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born this day in the city of david, a savior, which is christ the lord. off they went to find him in the manger. this may be an old story but a mighty one to grasp. it takes great faith, it takes true patience, much like the search for the perfect president itself. we come to recognize it is not so much about the telling of the story as it is about the serving of the story. what emerges is a spirit of giving and a message of hope for all seasons. glory to god in the highest and on earth, peace and goodwill toward men. that in the words of a great philosopher is what christmas is all about, charlie brown. so now, it is time to light the tree so we can all go back inside before everyone gets too cold. this year, our special tree lighting expert is a first grader in colville, washington. ladies and gentlemen, escorted by the u.s. capitol police chief, please join me in welcoming giovanni gainer. [applause] so, you may not know this, but we require all of our tree lighters to have some special qualifications. now, as i understand it, when you grow up, you wan
born this day in the city of david, a savior, which is christ the lord. off they went to find him in the manger. this may be an old story but a mighty one to grasp. it takes great faith, it takes true patience, much like the search for the perfect president itself. we come to recognize it is not so much about the telling of the story as it is about the serving of the story. what emerges is a spirit of giving and a message of hope for all seasons. glory to god in the highest and on earth, peace...
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the peak tech school that ibm in new york city, the colleges in new york city, the new york city department of education, and our union actually put together. it got a lot of attention because the president mentioned it in the state of the union, than the president went to see it, but this is a fantastic school. it's a school where ibm has back-mapped from what the entry position, the skills required for the entry position in ibm is, and we have put a six-year program together that also is aligned with the common core critical thinking, and every body, you go to the school, everybody loves it. so it is actually helping re- envision what career tech ed should look like in this new economy, and frankly, there is a lot of really great career tech ed schools throughout the country. toledo has one that is a terrific school, that has been aligned with gm. aviation high school in new york city, aligned with the aviation industry. transit tech in new york city. so i think there is some steam and a headwind that could actually push perkins through the gate, but it has to be formulaic. meaning we hav
the peak tech school that ibm in new york city, the colleges in new york city, the new york city department of education, and our union actually put together. it got a lot of attention because the president mentioned it in the state of the union, than the president went to see it, but this is a fantastic school. it's a school where ibm has back-mapped from what the entry position, the skills required for the entry position in ibm is, and we have put a six-year program together that also is...
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-born in new york city. she received her a.b. from princeton. she went to oxford where she was awarded a masters of philosophy. then a jd from harvard law school. after law school she clerked on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. circuit under justice marshall. she practiced for a while in washington d.c. and then became a law professor at the university of chicago. she went from there to serve in president clinton's administration in several roles and then she went back to teaching at harvard and was subsequently named as dean of harvard law school, first female dean of the law school there. in 2009, president obama nominated her for solicitor general of the united states and she served in that office for a year and was then nominated as an associate justice of the supreme court. she took that position in 2010 and filled the vacancy of justice john paul stevens who, after his retirement, was our last lecturer here at the law school. those are the vital statistics. i want to tell you something personal about her and i brought this a
-born in new york city. she received her a.b. from princeton. she went to oxford where she was awarded a masters of philosophy. then a jd from harvard law school. after law school she clerked on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. circuit under justice marshall. she practiced for a while in washington d.c. and then became a law professor at the university of chicago. she went from there to serve in president clinton's administration in several roles and then she went back to...
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the peak tech schools that ibm in new york city, the colleges in new york city, the new york city department of education, and our union actually put together. it got a lot of attention because the president mentioned it in the state of the union, then the president went to see it, but this is a fantastic school. it's a school where ibm has back-mapped from what the entry position, the skills required for the entry position in ibm is, and we have put a six-year program together that also is aligned with the common core critical thinking, and everybody, you go to the school, everybody loves it. so it is actually helping re- envision what career tech ed should look like in this new economy, and frankly, there is a lot of really great career tech ed schools throughout the country. toledo has one that is a terrific school, that has been aligned with gm. aviation high school in new york city, aligned with the aviation industry. transit tech in new york city. so i think there is some steam and a headwind that could actually push perkins through the gate, but it has to be formulaic. meaning we have
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now new york city state has passed a law that requires informing patient of their status as of january 2014. . . or it could be something really, really bad. this is a really bad environment for communication, and that should be the focus of -- the care should be the focus, not the payment. now, as i understand, and i would be happy to have clear indication remarks were others there is no way to challenge this decision that you are not in inpatient but you are an outpatient. it is a quality improvement organization in new york state and asked what a medicare beneficiary or family member could do to appeal that decision and she said the decision for observation can't be appealed. what you can do, she said, is to file a regular complaints about the quality of care. so if you could make a case getting this group of services denied you the best quality of care that would be a common point but -- complained. but to say i don't want to be observation status i want to be in inpatient, that won't work. at least that's my understanding. okay. we went over all of this so i'm not going to repeat.
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transit taking nuke city. so i do think there's some steam and the headwind that can actually push perkins through the gate, but it has to be formulaic. meaning we have to have formula funds, no more competitive grants. we can keep on doing winners and losers in the nation when all communities really should have high quality career tech ed spent last question. mr. thomas. >> you know, it seems to me at least that like politics, education is pretty local. and today's teachers do you think are trained well enough to handle situations like zero-tolerance policies that are so bizarre that they produce incredible incidents and bad publicity? kids being held up and suspended for childish things that are completely, goes along with david bullying. the lack of parental involvement in the inner cities to the extent that produces what we have today, because there aren't any pets sometimes. there may be grandparents but that's about it. how do you do with those kinds of things on a local basis? it's all well and good to
transit taking nuke city. so i do think there's some steam and the headwind that can actually push perkins through the gate, but it has to be formulaic. meaning we have to have formula funds, no more competitive grants. we can keep on doing winners and losers in the nation when all communities really should have high quality career tech ed spent last question. mr. thomas. >> you know, it seems to me at least that like politics, education is pretty local. and today's teachers do you think...
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until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. giving women the right to vote, that was hard. >> subcommittee will come to order. we will begin a round of questioning. i will start that off. my first question will be for mr. abrams. you note in your written testimony that one manner in which claims become complex because the va error. cases that disorder often appealed angry man had. often more than once, further increasing the complexity of the claim procedurally. number one, can you elaborate on the common errors which causes claims to be more complex due to va error on appeal? and number two, to think greater focus on appeal and remanded claims would assist va learning from it mistakes and making less of these types of errors in the future? >> yes, i can. let me give you an example. suppose a veteran files a claim for pts d. the
until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. giving women the right to vote, that was hard. >> subcommittee will come to order. we will begin a round of questioning. i will start that off. my first question will be for mr. abrams. you...
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this is an old industrial city with an unemployment rate around 13% and income that struggled to break $30,000 a year. similarly, looking at $100,000 a year in additional spending for the storm water management. ithey've included a pilot progrm to reduce phosphorus in the waterway of that it is about $111 million up front. a price tag which is borne by the panel and would be felt tremendously by the local business. this around and towns are both looking at the bills of about 75 million to 30 million respectively in the program. when i talk to local officials and businesses, they want -- they have a genuine desire to be compliant. they are bringing up their children and grandchildren in the neighborhood to see the value of clean air and water. they are concerned about the contamination, pollution and other hazards and how baby caddick on their hometown and they know that the cost of the savings that they are stuck. so i wanted to ask you in your opinion in the federal government, not just to the epa that the government to give to the strapped municipalities to go on. i have of course un
this is an old industrial city with an unemployment rate around 13% and income that struggled to break $30,000 a year. similarly, looking at $100,000 a year in additional spending for the storm water management. ithey've included a pilot progrm to reduce phosphorus in the waterway of that it is about $111 million up front. a price tag which is borne by the panel and would be felt tremendously by the local business. this around and towns are both looking at the bills of about 75 million to 30...
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until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations]ard. giving women the right to vote, that was hard. >> subcommittee will come to order. we will begin a round of questioning. i will start that off. my first question will be for mr. abrams. you note in your written testimony that one manner in which claims become complex because the va error. cases that disorder often appealed angry man had. often more than once, further increasing the complexity of the claim procedurally. number one, can you elaborate on the common errors which causes claims to be more complex due to va error on appeal? and number two, to think greater focus on appeal and remanded claims would assist va learning from it mistakes and making less of these types of errors in the future? >> yes, i can. let me give you an example. suppose a veteran
until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations]ard. giving women the right to vote, that was hard. >> subcommittee will come to order. we will begin a round of questioning. i will start that off. my first question...
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you mentioned ohio and that touched me being in the heart in the capital city of ohio. i'll be brief. the question is almost a follow-up to my colleague's question, but not as it relates to the church or faith-based. so often people in my district will say go to the church and they'll take care of it and that doesn't happen. when you need a loan in my district, the churches can't sustain new a home or with medical or groceries. if there was one thing you could say to us, i'm a so-what person and a resolve person. we're here and we heard you. what's the one extra thing you would like me to do, whether it's in my district or legislatively or here in a committee, what's the one thing? >> for me, and i've been asking myself what congress is doing and what they are doing for me as an individual and a community. i know you're not my representative. you do represent me in other ways. i think it's to find a way to resolve these issues that are facing our nation. help the people that are under yo your -- my husband and i were talking on the way to the airport that this is the co
you mentioned ohio and that touched me being in the heart in the capital city of ohio. i'll be brief. the question is almost a follow-up to my colleague's question, but not as it relates to the church or faith-based. so often people in my district will say go to the church and they'll take care of it and that doesn't happen. when you need a loan in my district, the churches can't sustain new a home or with medical or groceries. if there was one thing you could say to us, i'm a so-what person...
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we have -- a line drive from new york city. asher from-- we have new york city. where is the manurkey? bring it out here. you have to see this. thank you asher for your spirit and your creativity. katel whoana to actually coined the term thank sgivukah. i will keep this is a special place. [laughter] deborah,h her sister expect this term to catch on across the country. where are they? there they are. let's see them. hey guys, how are you? they had a lot of fun with their project. but there is a serious side to it because they say they always express their gratitude to america in a place that, no matter who you are, you can always celebrate your faith. that is expressed in the menorah we are about to light. by -- designed manfred escaped and like the maccabees of the hanukkah story, he fought against the tyranny with the australian army. after the war was over, he sought a place where he could live his life and practice his religion free from fear. so for manfred and millions like him, that place was ultimately america. he passed away last year. but during his lif
we have -- a line drive from new york city. asher from-- we have new york city. where is the manurkey? bring it out here. you have to see this. thank you asher for your spirit and your creativity. katel whoana to actually coined the term thank sgivukah. i will keep this is a special place. [laughter] deborah,h her sister expect this term to catch on across the country. where are they? there they are. let's see them. hey guys, how are you? they had a lot of fun with their project. but there is a...
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spreading from city to city and country to country seemingly overnight. today, that picture has transformed. thanks to the courage and love of so many of you in this room and around the world. awareness has soared. research has surged. prevention, treatment, and care are now saving millions of lives. in some of the poorest countries as well. for many, with testing and ask us to the right treatment, the disease that was once a death sentence now comes with a good chance of a healthy and productive life. that is an extraordinary achievement. as president, i have told you that you will have a partner in me. if the united states wanted to be the global leader of combating this disease, we needed to act like it. by doing our part and leading the world. that is what we have done, in partnership with so many of you. we have created the first hiv aids strategy. accesserson should get to life extending care, regardless of age, gender, race, or ethnicity. support theinued to ryan white care act. entry ban sod the that people with hiv are no longer barred from the u
spreading from city to city and country to country seemingly overnight. today, that picture has transformed. thanks to the courage and love of so many of you in this room and around the world. awareness has soared. research has surged. prevention, treatment, and care are now saving millions of lives. in some of the poorest countries as well. for many, with testing and ask us to the right treatment, the disease that was once a death sentence now comes with a good chance of a healthy and...
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[laughter] when i started he came as a cover reporter to city hall, two past presidents who were among the very generous people who welcomed me as the new right-wing daily at the new york sun so it's really nice to be here in and to dishonor to be on stage with oaks, like all the ones who were just honored. that is the end of the slideshow give me one second here. maybe the best way to do it is this. so the topic of this is how the social web is good for journalism and i thought i would define the jargon. i hate the word content to give actually. like news entertainment, good enough words. i have them in my bio, and i'm going to purge it. by the social web what i mean is this is basically isn't the future but the president. it's just when people open their computers are increasingly their phones the application they opeb site. they open twitter or facebook and the challenge for news organizations is how do you get to that strain? how do you make the kind of reporting and the kind of entertainment that people want to share and will share on facebook, on twitter and pinterest and whateve
[laughter] when i started he came as a cover reporter to city hall, two past presidents who were among the very generous people who welcomed me as the new right-wing daily at the new york sun so it's really nice to be here in and to dishonor to be on stage with oaks, like all the ones who were just honored. that is the end of the slideshow give me one second here. maybe the best way to do it is this. so the topic of this is how the social web is good for journalism and i thought i would define...
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we have 10-year-old asher weintraub from new york city. asher came up with what we world's first ever to nora shaped like a turkey. menurkey.ed the where is it? i had adjusted second ago. enurkey out here. thank you, asher for your spirit and creativity. we have dana. who actually coined the term thanksgivukkah. her sister -- go here is the menurkey. i am going to keep this in a special place. so dana along with her sister deborah expect the term to catch on around the country. where are they? let's see them. how are you? they have had a lot of fun with their project but there is a it because they said they always express their gratitude to america. no matter who you are, you can always celebrate your faith. that same spirit is reflected in menorah that we are about to my. it was designed by a man who was germany in 1922. lived through the horrors of kristallnacht and later lost a brother to the holocaust. escaped and like the people of the hanukkah story, he fought against tyranny serving in the australian army during world war ii. after
we have 10-year-old asher weintraub from new york city. asher came up with what we world's first ever to nora shaped like a turkey. menurkey.ed the where is it? i had adjusted second ago. enurkey out here. thank you, asher for your spirit and creativity. we have dana. who actually coined the term thanksgivukkah. her sister -- go here is the menurkey. i am going to keep this in a special place. so dana along with her sister deborah expect the term to catch on around the country. where are they?...
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michael scott was accused in a homicide case in salt lake city. there was no dna evidence in a homicide case. he was identified ultimately through a fingerprint on a piece of duct tape. but he was also accused of the rate of 214-year-old girls in salt lake city. there were semen samples from the rape so the question was does the dna from the evidentiary area sample matched the suspect. so come at that time the crime lab was using what are called rflp. the same principles i just showed you a plight here. so, what we have loaded into this gel we have the victims dna and we have the defendant and then we have three samples from the evidentiary area sample loaded at different concentrations. here is the highest concentration, so here is the pattern in the defendant and here's the pattern in the evident cheery sample. is this a match or not? what do you think? i see some heads nodding. and this was by the criteria established at the time a match. so is this sufficient to put him in jail? to convict him? probably not because we have to ask the question
michael scott was accused in a homicide case in salt lake city. there was no dna evidence in a homicide case. he was identified ultimately through a fingerprint on a piece of duct tape. but he was also accused of the rate of 214-year-old girls in salt lake city. there were semen samples from the rape so the question was does the dna from the evidentiary area sample matched the suspect. so come at that time the crime lab was using what are called rflp. the same principles i just showed you a...
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and if we give more cities the tools to do it -- not handouts, but a hand up -- cities like detroit can do it, too. so in a few weeks, we'll announce the first of these promise zones, urban and rural communities where we're going to support local efforts focused on a national goal -- and that is a child's course in life should not be determined by the zip code he's born in, but by the strength of his work ethic and the scope of his dreams. [applause] and we're also going to have to do more for the long-term unemployed. for people who have been out of work for more than six months, often through no fault of their own, life is a catch-22. companies won't give their rÉsume an honest look because they've been laid off so long -- but they've been laid off so long because companies won't give their rÉsume an honest look. [laughter] and that's why earlier this year, i challenged ceos from some of america's best companies to give these americans a fair shot. and next month, many of them will join us at the white house for an announcement about this. fifth, we've got to revamp retirement to pr
and if we give more cities the tools to do it -- not handouts, but a hand up -- cities like detroit can do it, too. so in a few weeks, we'll announce the first of these promise zones, urban and rural communities where we're going to support local efforts focused on a national goal -- and that is a child's course in life should not be determined by the zip code he's born in, but by the strength of his work ethic and the scope of his dreams. [applause] and we're also going to have to do more for...
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greg from new york city. caller: hello. to seehe privilege nelson mandela at a harvard university -- he was given an honorary degree in 1998, and i was so moved to hear his speech. and i'm -- my heart goes out to his family today. thank you very much. host: we hope to bring you to the 1998 congressional gold medal ceremony honoring nelson mandela. from colorado springs, good evening. caller: good evening to you. i had the privilege of seeing him on his tour in africa when he was released in 1990. and hisrate his life legacy and benchmark and a father figure to the region. host: in 1990 he had just gotten out of prison, correct? caller: before he was president. at that time, i was 12. forlegacy he has left africans, south africans, and students like myself is great and i would like to celebrate his life and give my condolences to his family. it is important to look at what he left behind and build upon that. caller: host: he was released after 27 years in prison. good evening, john. caller: i want to say good evening, c-span
greg from new york city. caller: hello. to seehe privilege nelson mandela at a harvard university -- he was given an honorary degree in 1998, and i was so moved to hear his speech. and i'm -- my heart goes out to his family today. thank you very much. host: we hope to bring you to the 1998 congressional gold medal ceremony honoring nelson mandela. from colorado springs, good evening. caller: good evening to you. i had the privilege of seeing him on his tour in africa when he was released in...
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but the institution itself depends on the idea that it is not just take when cities of what nine people happened to be on the supreme court to determine the meaning of the constitution. >> let's get into the nitty-gritty of light you don't have press credentials at the supreme court. the only way that lyle denniston gets in the courtroom is through his relationship with wbur. could you describe your efforts to get press credentials and why that apparently has been unsuccessful? >> sure. and this is another instance in which the court itself is relatively opaque. they have been thinking about this for a while. the history of this is that the blog originally asked to be credentialed in the supreme court. we were told that we need to have a senate press credential. the senate would not credential us because we were lawyers. and it took us a while to convince them that we worked the kind of lawyers that were trying to lobby the senate. i think to be perfectly honest, that the tipping point for us getting a senate press credential was the peabody. in the wake of the peabody, it became unsust
but the institution itself depends on the idea that it is not just take when cities of what nine people happened to be on the supreme court to determine the meaning of the constitution. >> let's get into the nitty-gritty of light you don't have press credentials at the supreme court. the only way that lyle denniston gets in the courtroom is through his relationship with wbur. could you describe your efforts to get press credentials and why that apparently has been unsuccessful? >>...
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process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of instances where you think he has overstepped. >> the other two that come out to me is really the issue of the $454 million in the prevention fund issue for the federal health care insurance exchange. and also the 700 billion for the state exchanges. then finally the, essentially the subsidies for congressional employees which is less significant than those other ones. what bothers me about those last examples is that it goes directly to the the power of the purse and we have seen over and and over again courts saying don't worry, you have the power of the purse. this administration is now directly challenging that and saying, we can take money that was dedicated for one purpose and give it to an unspecified, unallowed, disallowed purpose. that challenges the very r
process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of instances where you think he has overstepped. >> the other two that come out to me is really the issue of the $454 million in the prevention fund...
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i represent a district in queens, new york city, where a lot of employers have not always done the right thing like you, ms. baker, and have not provided health insurance to their employees and have taken advantage of many employees around the country who don't speak english and are not familiar with rules. statistics have shown that on sunday and monday alone, 29,000 people signed up for the new health care law just on the website in two days. and i was just wondering, you know, what advice could you have given or would you give to a lot of these employees or small business employers who have not provided insurance in the past? anyone can answer that. >> sure. i mean, so we like to consider ourself a good employer. and we have provided insurance in the past. the nature of it is that the cost of insurance has risen drastically in the last few years. and most of the young people who are healthy simply drop off the plan. which makes the cost go up even more. so we've got a situation where people aren't willing to pay for the insurance despite the fact that we're continuing to increase our
i represent a district in queens, new york city, where a lot of employers have not always done the right thing like you, ms. baker, and have not provided health insurance to their employees and have taken advantage of many employees around the country who don't speak english and are not familiar with rules. statistics have shown that on sunday and monday alone, 29,000 people signed up for the new health care law just on the website in two days. and i was just wondering, you know, what advice...
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we need to keep up the fights in the cities. and keep pursuing breakthroughs. i am pleased to announce research at nih. we will redirect a $100 million into the project because the united states should be at the forefront into how to put hiv into long-term remission or eliminate it completely. >> the president earlier this week as you know discussing additional funding for aids research. how close are we to finding a cure for aids? >> well, i think you have to look at the situation of a cure. it is impossible to predict how far we are away. people are confused with ending the aids epidemic and getting people on treatment. curing is a sustained remission without the need for therapy. that is a goal that is not going to be easy. but one of things you don't want to get confused with is even though we don't have a cure, the advances that have been made by the therapy is nothing short of breath-taking. in the early 1980s, when i started taking care of aids patients, after the discovery of the disease, the survival rate was 6-8 months and 50% of patients were dead wi
we need to keep up the fights in the cities. and keep pursuing breakthroughs. i am pleased to announce research at nih. we will redirect a $100 million into the project because the united states should be at the forefront into how to put hiv into long-term remission or eliminate it completely. >> the president earlier this week as you know discussing additional funding for aids research. how close are we to finding a cure for aids? >> well, i think you have to look at the situation...
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born this day in the city of david, a savior and my which is christ the lord. soft the shivers when, to find they went to off find him in the major. this may be an old story but a mighty one to grasp. it takes great faith, it takes true patience, much like the search for the perfect president itself. we come to recognize it is not so much about the [inaudible] as it is about the serving of the story. what emerges is a spirit of giving and a message of hope for all seasons. the highest and on earth, peace and goodwill toward men. that in the words of a great philosopher is what christmas is all about, charlie brown. so now, it is time to light the tree so we can all go back inside before everyone gets too cold. our special tree lighting expert is a first grader in colville, washington. ladies and gentlemen, escorted by the u.s. capitol police chief, please join me in welcoming giovanni gainer. [applause] you may not know this, but we require all of our tree letters to have some special qualifications. now, as i understand it, when you grew up, you want to be a p
born this day in the city of david, a savior and my which is christ the lord. soft the shivers when, to find they went to off find him in the major. this may be an old story but a mighty one to grasp. it takes great faith, it takes true patience, much like the search for the perfect president itself. we come to recognize it is not so much about the [inaudible] as it is about the serving of the story. what emerges is a spirit of giving and a message of hope for all seasons. the highest and on...
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it is cities new papers have long dealing with national security. the problem is they tend to be very vague and they are not rooted in the specific stories. you have quoted to you. i would like to quote for people back at you have told you personally that has been no damage or cannot seem to get evidence i think leslie from norman baker, the current home office minister. he said he'd seen no damage. >> yes, that's right. >> the second person we've consulted as a member of the senate intelligence community, so somebody was sitting in oversight of all the intelligence has seen it all. said to us, he asked not to be named, we asked him because we want to know this, and have you seen anything "the guardian" has published that is caused damage? and he said, i have been incredibly impressed by what you've done, how should have done. you have written about the scope and the skill. i have seen nothing that has done this -- i have seen nothing that you've done has caused damage. a senior administration official in the current obama administration told us las
it is cities new papers have long dealing with national security. the problem is they tend to be very vague and they are not rooted in the specific stories. you have quoted to you. i would like to quote for people back at you have told you personally that has been no damage or cannot seem to get evidence i think leslie from norman baker, the current home office minister. he said he'd seen no damage. >> yes, that's right. >> the second person we've consulted as a member of the senate...
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ceo of health care partners, but mostly as a doctor the practice for over 20 years in an urban inner-city hospital in los angeles, serving primarily seniors and other disadvantaged patients where i saw that without equivocation, the fee-for-service mentality of the original medicare, or as we like to refer to it, fever volume, is not coordinating care for seniors. -- key for falling. seniors have multiple chronic diseases who are vulnerable and especially those that are poor and with fewer resources need an ideal system, a system that helps with great information and a physician advisor to help them navigate through a very difficult and complex health care system, and manages them longitudinally across time. as a physician i can tell you that every physician i know manages his or her patients with great desire to be the best outcome that does that have the infrastructure to coordination and resources to follow that patient longitudinally through their health care needs. and that is the one major advantage that coordinated care population health managed care, however you choose to name it,
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and its sealed cities. nelson mandela pierced the conscience of people around the world he read -- world. he considered it a part of his voice works not to rest until the evil of apartheid was ended. there were so many who said no to apartheid in ways large and small. he visited just months after his release from prison and then again a number of times in the following years. mr. speaker, the character of shown in thea was grace with which he won. prison could have easily left him bitter. upon his release, he could've sought vengeance on those who did him wrong. magnetically -- to be magnanimous. and he focused on a young woman who became his confident. became a powerful center of reconciliation. officials were brought of national unity. they were asked to break the spiral of recrimination and violence. africa was at its heart. determinationess in stepping up the fight against aids. it has been one of the great honours of my life to go to south africa and meet mandela. i remember discussing that issue in hi
and its sealed cities. nelson mandela pierced the conscience of people around the world he read -- world. he considered it a part of his voice works not to rest until the evil of apartheid was ended. there were so many who said no to apartheid in ways large and small. he visited just months after his release from prison and then again a number of times in the following years. mr. speaker, the character of shown in thea was grace with which he won. prison could have easily left him bitter. upon...
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in the nature of the demand for power, the aging parts of the grid and increased equity in the tent city of storm related disruptions being considered in ferc's reliability efforts to? >> well, thank you. that's a big question. i guess there's at least two different parts of the. one is the actual reliability standards to make sure that the transmission asset owners have the accountability over the refurbishment of their lines so that they operate properly in order to meet the standards. but secondly, we were talking about order 1000 mission planning, a reference was made to transmission rates. that's all a part of making sure that the structures are in place so that the companies can invest the money they need to replace aging infrastructure. and as you know, i am probably with some of the aged resources in the region. it wasn't early part of the country to electrifying. >> thank you. thank you very much. capacity market rose to the pjm area and in, threaten to continue the belly of load serving entities to sell supply their own capacity resources to serve their own loads. this problem
in the nature of the demand for power, the aging parts of the grid and increased equity in the tent city of storm related disruptions being considered in ferc's reliability efforts to? >> well, thank you. that's a big question. i guess there's at least two different parts of the. one is the actual reliability standards to make sure that the transmission asset owners have the accountability over the refurbishment of their lines so that they operate properly in order to meet the standards....
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until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] recessing the hearing briefly coverage of the subcommittee will continue when members get back from voting on the house floor. and when we return, they'll pick up hearing with more testimony from legal advocates. and processing complicated veterans disability claims. three panels in all are scheduled for this afternoon. some news of the associated press writes that the family of a florida woman killed during the shooting at the washington navy yard is the first to file lawsuit against the federal government and contractors. claiming they ignored red flags about the killers'. and a suit named the navy the department of veteran affair, and two deafen contractors as the defendant. and is seeking at least $37.7 million. until the committee
until the problem gets fixed we're losing the good faith of the city of veterans every year. thank you, i'll be happy to take questions. >> thank you. there's less than five minutes left we're going have to go in to recess and be back half hour to 40 minutes. so the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] recessing the hearing briefly coverage of the subcommittee will continue when members get back from voting on the house floor. and when we return,...
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chance that there is an air marshal on that flight because the flight is so sensitive coming in to a city where only seconds from an airplane aborting a landing, only within seconds that airplane is near some of the centers of the united states government, such as the capitol, such such as the white house, such as the supreme court. and if a person were able to sneak a plastic gun through, then it seems to me that that poses a much greater threat to the security interest of this country and its people. and if it is not legal, if it is, in fact, legal to have a gun where you can remove that piece of metal, and he has been able to sneak that through the metal detectors at the place of origin of that person's flight, then it seems to me we are asking for trouble. and that in the great tradition of the second amendment of protecting people and letting them have their rights to guns, that this is an abrasion of that -- be aeration of that right that we need to duely consider and protect against. and i thank senator grassley for coming here and extending the law today. thank you and i yield the
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. >> in the survey of major newspapers made in teen 09, the kansas city star was rated more in favor of reform than all the other major metropolitan newspapers in the united states himself area as nelson told an interviewer in 1910, -- i don't want the stars editorial to be a lot of literary essays. i want to get things done. up hisfollowed strictures on past performance rejectedditorial that the notion roosevelt was a man on horse back and seized power and become addict ater. he is a elder recalled to his work said the paper, rather than a man on worse back. after roosevelt's arrival from africa, mid-talk about his candidacy, there are clubs formed like napoleon in the spring of 1910. >> the impact of william rockhill nelson on the aggressive movement and teddy roosevelt's campaign to win back the white house sunday on american history tv. >> unemployment insurance benefits are set to expire on december 28. earlier today, democratic steering and policy committee held a hearing on what that will mean for close to 1.3 million people. this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyo
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being hit hardest including gay and bisexual men, latinos mericans and and keep up the fight in our cities including washington, diagnosis has reduced infections by nearly half. e're going to keep pursuing scientific breakthroughs. today i'm pleased to announce he new initiative at the national institute of health about a cure. $100 million to evelop a new generation of therapies. because the united states should be at the fore front of new to tut in and how long term remission without lifelong therapies or better yet eliminate it completely. the president earlier this week discussing additional funding for aids research. how close are we for finding a aids?or >> i think you have to look at he situation of a cure realistically and impossible to predict how far we're away from that. eople sometimes get confused between the difference of ending the aids pandemic and getting everyone who needs to be on treatment on treatment to the point where they can live a normal life and curing, curing means that you put someone into sustained remission without the need for therapy essentially indefinitel
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fall of saigon and you'll remember the scene of the helicopters leaving the american embassy as the city fell. very continuing lots of history unfolding. >> historically accelerated in the two and a half years. by no means, all of -- >> on a personal front a couple of months after they came to office, mrs. ford discovered she had breast cancer. >> yeah. this was, you know, in some ways this was the moment the indelible moment she, i think, first impressed her on the american people. or maybe the whole ford family. it is really hard 40 years later to conceive the degree to which people didn't talk about this disease. euphemism were deployed. people didn't die of breast cancer. they died of a wasting illness. what mrs. ford did was to bring this out in the open, and overnight transformed the way women in particular looked at the disease. for her, it was also a lesson, i mean, she had it was her first -- that a first lady could have. by being herself. by shining the light on a dark corner. by educating the public. >> next up we'll listen to president ford himself announcing the result of he
fall of saigon and you'll remember the scene of the helicopters leaving the american embassy as the city fell. very continuing lots of history unfolding. >> historically accelerated in the two and a half years. by no means, all of -- >> on a personal front a couple of months after they came to office, mrs. ford discovered she had breast cancer. >> yeah. this was, you know, in some ways this was the moment the indelible moment she, i think, first impressed her on the american...
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the last event of the campaign was a union city, heavily hispanic down. he worked on getting the endorsement of the hispanic organizations and hispanic leaders. he was an avid hispanic bakery in the state. he made it a priority. he made it a dirty from day one. chris christie understands that what he brings to the table is the fact that he can get -- that he can increase the base. that he can increase the tent. that he can get crossover voters. so he needed to prove that come into did. he made it a priority. mitt romney didn't. don't blame the hispanics. >> so, my question, final question, would be, cannot you talk a lot about what the republican party needs and that white men are just not what they used to be, in terms of voting and you just had some chris christie at what he did to appeal to the republican party and hispanic vote. so who do you think, in your opinion, to be the candidate to bring the republican party back to the white house? >> i'm jaded, unbiased. is my friend. i know him. i love him. he speaks beautiful spanish but i think the best ca
the last event of the campaign was a union city, heavily hispanic down. he worked on getting the endorsement of the hispanic organizations and hispanic leaders. he was an avid hispanic bakery in the state. he made it a priority. he made it a dirty from day one. chris christie understands that what he brings to the table is the fact that he can get -- that he can increase the base. that he can increase the tent. that he can get crossover voters. so he needed to prove that come into did. he made...
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of stanford, but before that as a member of the board of finance in the city of stanford, mayor for 14 years and now as governor of the state of connecticut. i'd like to talk about what really needs to happen in the united states and put it into an appropriate context. we've been at the business of educating on a public basis, our children, for a long, long time. but if you look at the rhetoric that's frequently used around education issues, it is old rhetoric. it's about giving children the opportunity to learn. the distribution of opportunity is what we usually measure our success by, which is interesting if you think about it. where else would you hold yourself as successful for offering for sale a product that a nobody bought? or that a substantial percentage of people failed to purchase? but in education we had this idea that all we needed to do was to offer the opportunity to all of our students to learn. thousand, that was -- now, that was -- didn't pay attention to the deficits that they might have of come to school with, didn't pay a whole lot of attention to issues such as
of stanford, but before that as a member of the board of finance in the city of stanford, mayor for 14 years and now as governor of the state of connecticut. i'd like to talk about what really needs to happen in the united states and put it into an appropriate context. we've been at the business of educating on a public basis, our children, for a long, long time. but if you look at the rhetoric that's frequently used around education issues, it is old rhetoric. it's about giving children the...
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it's obviously a benefit to new york and the city of new york as obviously as was our concern. and given the great benefits of the project i really believe that it's important that it is implemented in a timely manner. so my only question is really in our effort to plan for a post-indian point new york, i'm sure that we have to make sure that we have sufficiently reliable, safe energy to replace the nuclear facility here because when some of us said that it should be closed, people came back with well, what are you going to do to replace it? i believe the champlain hudson power express line provides a portion of that and i would like to hear from any of you regarding the status of the project. madam chair. >> thank you, mr. congressman. i believe about a year ago within the past year, ferc issued an order a pretty market-based rates for the champlain hudson power express line. no one sought rehearing of that order so its final so we did the rate making. i believe the citing of the line is being done in new york state, as i don't think with anything open on the line right now bu
it's obviously a benefit to new york and the city of new york as obviously as was our concern. and given the great benefits of the project i really believe that it's important that it is implemented in a timely manner. so my only question is really in our effort to plan for a post-indian point new york, i'm sure that we have to make sure that we have sufficiently reliable, safe energy to replace the nuclear facility here because when some of us said that it should be closed, people came back...
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during his tenure, he prided himself on balancing the budget and investing in the city's future. deit year after year. amazingly, public service was his third career. he began his life as a iron worker. a member of the united iron workers. he also worked as a shoemaker. in 1970, he moved to decoin with his wife wanda and his three kids. he brought together local shareholders and took control of a struggling local bank. he converted it into one of the soundest, most profitable banks in southern illinois. but it was john redenour's third career, his work as mayor of decoin, that really distinguished his public service. as a mayor, as i mentioned, he was a fiscal conservative but he was also a person who believed in giving people a chance. john redenour was a proud democrat. in fact, he was the former chairman of the illinois democratic party chairs. he rode on air force one with president jimmy carter and he had a good relationship with presidents, including president obama. the politicians whose careers he helped, launch or advanced could have filled a stadium, but he knew there a
during his tenure, he prided himself on balancing the budget and investing in the city's future. deit year after year. amazingly, public service was his third career. he began his life as a iron worker. a member of the united iron workers. he also worked as a shoemaker. in 1970, he moved to decoin with his wife wanda and his three kids. he brought together local shareholders and took control of a struggling local bank. he converted it into one of the soundest, most profitable banks in southern...
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process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of
process because our process, unlike other systems, that would explode into the streets of paris and other cities, we have a type of constitutional implosion. we direct those pressures to the center of congress and from that we take disparate factional interests and return them to majoritarian compromise. >> keep going down the list of
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like many cities around the country has a rapidly developing community and we like most of the operators anticipate in the local restaurant entities of various partners often family members. though we consider each operation to be a small-business many are discovering for the purpose of the healthcare law must be considered one of the playeemployerto the aggregation. the application of these aggregation rules is already having an impact on the small businesses consuming valuable time and resources to decipher. each of less than 50 full-time equivalent employees. two are highly seasonal businesses and may not be considered for the calendar month and uncontrollable factors such as whether or not the legislature is in session and the performance of the sports and academic calendars related to the surrounding universities. based on my understanding of the aggregation rules would be considered as one employer under the law but is an applicable large employer. it would operate on the thin margins to manage the labor cost very closely to remain viable. austin texas remains one of the strongest
like many cities around the country has a rapidly developing community and we like most of the operators anticipate in the local restaurant entities of various partners often family members. though we consider each operation to be a small-business many are discovering for the purpose of the healthcare law must be considered one of the playeemployerto the aggregation. the application of these aggregation rules is already having an impact on the small businesses consuming valuable time and...